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Mr. Tom Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

Hardworking or hard-working

Hi

Which one do you prefer?

Hardworking or hard-working

Thanks,

Tom
  

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For this kind of problem I simply check with OneLook:

hardworking: 17 dictionaries ( http://www.onelook.com/?w=hardworking&ls=a )
hard-working: 6 dictionaries ( http://www.onelook.com/?w=ha
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Thanks, MM.

The N-gram leads me to believe the hardworking has always played second fiddle to hard-working (up until very recently).

Tom
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That is the normal trend with age and use: two words to hyphenated word to single word.
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